how do you pronounce this name? (POLL)

I like Madeline but my fiance pointed out it can be pronouned 2 different ways and i prefer one wayyyyy better, so how do yall pronounce it? and do you pronouce it different if its spelled madelyn? and where are you from? (i want to see if that effects the results)

Typically when people introduce themselves or are introduced, that's when the pronounciation is expressed. But there will be the teacher on the first day of school or the reception that may pronounce it wrong the first time.

Madeline is traditionally pronounced Mad-ah-Lynn. The -line pronunciation is an anglicization and is the least correct out of the three possible pronunciations(leen, line, lyn). People didn't use Line until the last fifteen years or so when the generation that grew up on the storybook started having kids. Before that everyone said mad-ah-Lynn. The name was mispronounced in the story to fit the rhyme.

I would say Lynn, I'm a traditionalist and am not big on modern names.

My DD is a Madeline, and pretty much everyone around us pronounces it with the -lynn ending. Which is what we had intended. My dad says it with the -line ending sometimes just to be goofy though. :)
Eta:I'm in Iowa.

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